Just In: Former Trump campaign manager volunteers to testify before House Intelligence Committee

By Itunuoluwa Adebo

Devin Nunes, House Intelligence Committee Chair has said that Paul Manafort, former President Trump campaign chairman, has volunteered to testify before his committee, which is currently investigating alleged ties between Trump campaign officials and Russia as well as the Kremlin’s activities in the 2016 election.

He made the announcement Friday Morning, also adding that the committee had asked FBI Director James Comey and NSA head Adm. Michael Rogers to return and brief the panel.

FBI director Comey who appeared before the House Intelligence Committee on Monday and confirmed that the e bureau was probing Russia’s role in the elections, as well as Trump aides’ possible ties to the Kremlin.

Nunes’s announcement that Paul Manafort, through his lawyer, offered to speak to the committee followed a controversial week in which the California Republican lawmaker personally briefed President Trump about new revelations he said potentially demonstrate that he and his campaign aides may have been caught up in legal surveillance activities by the intelligence community during the presidential transition period.

 

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